Searows End of the World (Forest Green)

Forest Green Vinyl. Searows is the moniker of Kentucky-born, Oregon-raised musician Alec Duckart. Duckart's intimate, hushed and compelling debut album 'Guard Dog' was released independently, soon finding an audience that were already sharing snippets of his music via communities on TikTok. With no real anticipation or expectation for where he wanted the music to land, the record was greeted fondly, and received extensive co-signs from the likes of Ethel Cain (who invited Searows on tour earlier this year), and Gracie Abrams (who he will support on stages across the UK/Europe later this year). It's a sound that often feels like Duckart is singing to you, the listener, alone, and as an admirer of the likes of Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver, it similarly hits a raw nerve. Duckart has produced all his own music to date, primarily because he knows just how he wants it sound, but more pertinently because 'I don't really know how to communicate it to anyone else yet'.